Short: Work Should Do More Than Just Pay The Bills

This is Steve Kelley’s “metal face,” which he puts on when playing or performing the heavy metal music he writes in his free time.

Margaret J. Krauss
/ 90.5 WESA

Steve Kelley spends his nights cleaning offices in downtown Pittsburgh. He’s a union janitor with SEIU 32BJ. While he makes his way through three huge floors, he thinks about music; he plays heavy metal. “It’s my heart, it’s my passion,” he says.

But it wasn’t until Kelley joined the union that he had enough money to do more than keep up with the bills. He says everyone who works 40 hours a week should be able to do the same.

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When janitor Steve Kelley goes to work each night he’s on his own, but he’s not alone: he’s a union man.